Is there any common hobby more perverse than bibliophilia?
Reading is good in small quantities, but there is seriously something wrong with people who reading literature and philosophy for more than ~90 minutes a day. It is completely self-contradictory to spend too much time reading. Literature claims that it enlightens the reader by teaching him themes that provoke thought about life and humanity (love, death, God, perceiving, nature...). But when you spend too much time reading, you don't get to actually experience life. Instead you get to sit in a chair reading text. Bibliophiles are like aspiring professional athletes who spend all their time reviewing the playbooks, the footage, demonstrations of the proper physical techniques but never step foot on the field and actually move.
Take Veeky Forums for example. If we take the stereotype of the user of this website to be true, there is no point in the average browser here to spend more time learning about human relationships or innocence. If he wishes to improve in those aspects, he must put the text away and spur himself into action. Life is too short to spend too much time reading.
(This criticism does not apply to those who spend their time doing things like studying math, science, history, or spend their days playing sports and bodybuilding because it is not self-contradictory to do so. They are not purporting to teach themselves thematic ideas.)
Is there any common hobby more perverse than bibliophilia?
you're right, I've already read too much today, so I won't read your post.
Okay. Do you like my cat?
yes very cute
>posts on Veeky Forums instead
Nice image. mind if i save it? :^)
Is there any common hobby more perverse than pornography?
Pornography is good in small quantities, but there is seriously something wrong with people who masturbate to pornography and soft erotica for more than ~90 minutes a day. It is completely self-contradictory to spend too much time masturbating. Pornography claims that through their images, masturbators picture scenes of sexual intercourse where they learn new kinks, so to speak, and new sexual techniques (missionary, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, amazon, anal fisting, BDSM...). But when you spend too much time masturbating, you don't actually experience sex. Instead you get to sit in a chair pulling at your penis. Masturbators are like aspiring professional porn actors who spend all their time reviewing Playboy, demonstrations of the proper sexual positions, developing their stamina or cumloads, but never step foot on the field and actually fuck.
Take /gif/ for example. If we take the stereotype of the user of this website to be true, there is no point in the average browser here to spend more time learning about sexual relantionships. If he wishes to improve in those aspects, he must put the pornography away and spur himself into action. Life is too short to spend too much time masturbating.
(This criticism does not apply to those who spend their time doing things like selling their sperm for a living, paying for prostitutes or self-mutilators because it is not self-contradictory to do so. They are not purporting to teach themselves new forms of sexual pleasure.)
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This is top fucking quality, user.
Oh, please. In an age where most people spend more time than that playing with their phones daily, you're pulling that "get outside and live life" bullshit?
t. watches shounen animes and capeshit
Nigga people spend >3 hours on their iPhones in today’s age, if I substitute that for an hour of reading non-fiction I’m well ahead.
>holier than thou about iphones
what if they use they iphone to shitpost on Veeky Forums
the latter activities are just pathetic
I use an iPhone too, I just don’t spend my life looking at pointless crap on social media
>I just don’t spend my life looking at pointless crap on social media
>can't admit that Veeky Forums is just social media for autists and social anxietists
You'd be onto something if not for the fact that there are so few genuine bibliophiles. To "read a lot" today is to average more than an hour, maybe two tops.
I wish I was more of a bibliophile.
I use literature as escapism, also because society places value in reading for some reason I don't feel as guilty as I would wasting my time doing other things.
literature is experience.
edgy
>Literature claims
Stopped reading there.
No it doesn't.
Literature is an abstraction. It makes no claims.
You are a fool.
thats such a stupid argument and can be used to dismiss literally every hobby
>Oh you watch tv/play vidya/collect stamps/do whatever the fuck for more than 90 minutes a day? ur missing life dood
this just in: 'life' just isnt all that great
>implying bibliophilia has anything to do with reading
Also check out Flaubert's Bibliomania.
This. Learn what words mean before you post.
Agreed OP. There is an extreme consumerwhore mentality on Veeky Forums
>tfw only read 1h a day
thanks for the motivation OP
I own a retard too
You fucking cocksucker, I'm a bibliophile bordering on bibliomania, and I read like 20-40 min a day. Have about 50 meters of shelf space filled with books, usually spend around 1k € a month on books.
I haven't read your post, but I imagine you compare reading to anime at some point. All I'll say is that escapism is escapism. It doesn't matter if your self inserting yourself as a protag in an anime or in history since they're equally far away
>and I read like 20-40 min a day
(you) 7/10
read 2 hours a day maximum anything longer is disgusting
I think you have to be careful about what you read, rather than putting some sort of arbitrary time limit on it. I'd say the average "reader" reads about 1-2hrs a day if that.
People who read widely and not deeply are pseuds. And in a different respect, reading Veeky Forums posts all day will ruin you.
Reading history is not escapism at all though. Reading history is a horrifying indication of what we are likely to endure in the future
This seems like a modern rendition of the old politicians' problem with philosophers, and those who prefer theory to praxis. "You young'uns ought to go live a little, the books and the studies aren't going anywhere."
Studying anything that doesn't bring you forward, or progress toward something attainable, seems dafter than reading for enjoyment. History is largely useless nowadays, math & science are only useful if you have need of specific functions or information therein, and bodybuilding is essentially wasting resources over-specializing. Unless you're playing in spare time (as a release or fitness activity) or networking, or planning to go professional, sports are a waste of time. In fact, pretty much anything that doesn't specifically further your contribution to humanity or improve your own life by furthering your progress toward something attainable is a waste of life given.
On the other hand, what you like is great for you, and what I like is great for me. If you choose to spend 90 minutes a day on reading, and I choose to spend 16h, great for both of us if it's what we're aiming for.
books are life as it should be
Yes it is, every historybuff in hs was basically a weeb but replace naruto with the third reich, dragonball with rome and one piece with the Soviet union
insipid
>sports and bodybuilding are a waste of time
>"get outside and live life" bullshit
>bullshit
kek
>Literature claims that it enlightens the reader by teaching him themes that provoke thought about life and humanity
Who is this literature guy?
>you don't get to actually experience life. Instead you get to sit in a chair reading text.
Wew. You're going to have to give us your arbitrary definition of "experiencing life".
I think (hope) his point is that the argument that you are "wasting" your time if you aren't making """"""progress""""" in some form is retarded.